"O people of the Bayan! If ye aid Him not, God will
assuredly assist Him with the powers of earth and heaven, and sustain Him with
the hosts of the unseen through His command "Be", and it is! The day
is approaching when God will have, by an act of His Will, raised up a race of
men the nature of which is inscrutable to all save God, the All-Powerful, the
Self-Subsisting. He shall purify them from the defilement of idle fancies and
corrupt desires, shall lift them up to the heights of holiness, and shall cause
them to manifest the signs of His sovereignty and might upon earth. Thus hath
it been ordained by God, the All-Glorious, the All-Loving."
Comments:
· As we know, the “people of Bayan” is a reference to the
followers of the Bab. It’s very sad that most of Baha’u’llah’s sufferings were
caused by those followers of the Bab, albeit a very small group, that didn’t
recognize Him as the Promised One of the Bab and did their best to discredit
and harm Him. For example this reference from the beloved Master:
“…the people of Bayan who broke the Covenant of His
Holiness, the Báb, and from six directions shot arrows of reproach and calumny
at Thy Blessed Body.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith, p. 433)
· This paragraph also reminds us that the Manifestation of
God has the full support of God and that God will “assist Him with the powers
of earth and heaven, and sustain Him with the hosts of the unseen …” We may
wonder, isn’t this obvious, since after all He is trying to do God’s Will.
Maybe part of the wisdom of us being reminded of this point is to have absolute
faith and confidence in the ability of the Manifestation of God to “assist” and
“sustain” us when we are in need, since He has the full support of God.
